Team Lead, Intercompany Accounting

AS-MY-Kuala Lumpur

**Job Description and Qualifications**

This position is responsible for overseeing for all the inter-company transactions and activities, Internal Order Accounting (IO), across Asia regions, including China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia. This position needs to lead a team to accomplish all above activities, including inter-company transactions recording and reconciliation, month-end closing, reporting are performed timely and accurately, intercompany balance are cleared timely with comply of local statutory requirements.

**Nature and Scope**

This position is responsible for overseeing intercompany related transactions, Internal Order Accounting related to all business segments, as well as leading monthly intercompany payment process, supporting to Country field finance’s external audits, transfer pricing documentation, SOX and accounts reconciliation etc.

He or she need to provide functional support for the activities or ad hoc request from Corporate Decision Support, Business Decision Support, External auditor, Corporate Tax, CFF, etc. Work closely with regional and global team to provide necessary information and guideline to ensure controls in place. Moreover, he or she need to lead and train junior Inter-company Accountants in their daily work and implement common accounting policies, procedures, and work practices.

**Primary customers**
- Internal Customers:
To create and maintain the Cost Allocation module for all legal entities in Asia, create internal order for expats assignment etc, this incumbent need to interface with all necessary internal functions included Corporate Decision Support, Business Decision Support, Corporate Tax, SBS, Global Accounting, Corporate Treasury, Human Resource etc.
- External Customer

To provide detail information for the requirement of local tax audit and group and statutory audit, the incumbent is expected to support CFF to deal with local authority and/or External auditor for related questions or issues.

**PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES**

To ensure daily operations on the Intercompany accounting, Internal Order accounting across the Asia region to be compliance with APCI policy and procedure and adherence to General Accepted Accounting Principle (GAAP), together with local statutory compliance requirements. This position has a lot of interaction with end users, Finance cross function teams to identify and solve issues as well.

Monitor all inter-company transactions and activities to ensure they are booked timely and accurately, including

but not limited to:

- Inter-company A/R billing and receivable
- Inter-company A/P booking and payments, including In House Cash payment
- Internal order and cost center assessment
- Identify and confirm billed and unbilled amount

Review monthly inter-company account reconciliations, oversee the team to solve the imbalance items coordinate for complicate outstanding issues, maintain the KPIs in a good shape. Lead and monitor monthly intercompany payment process to ensure the intercompany balances are cleared timely with compliance with specific countries’ practice.

Monitor and ensure the correct inter-company markup billing processes are applied and make sure tax rates are appropriate for manual billing business.

Quarterly analysis of US GAAP finance report for intercompany and 10K69 tax report, Lead the team to support for country external audit when needed, support on transfer Pricing documentation. Maintain compliance to US GAAP and AP Accounting Finance Standards and procedures. Ensure all related job aids and working procedures are in place and kept updated. Provide process support with the goal of streamlining and simplifying accounting processes while ensuring accuracy and integrity of data. Lead the team to solve the issues or handle the complex issue in Intercompany realm, identify the potential exposure and work on remediation plan. Participate in continuous improvement on process and practice， identify the opportunity, lead or work on projects to achieve higher performance and deliver better results. Other duties assigned.

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JOB REQUIREMENTS_**

The incumbent is expected to have Bachelor Degree in Finance or accounting.
He /She should have more than 2 years in people/team management role in financial accounting area.
SAP system knowledge will be a plus.
The incumbent also needs to have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, humble to learn and desire to coach, customer focus, change management, strategy mindset, and a proven ability to effectively analyze and solve the problems in the daily operation.
Good leadership skill to assign tasks, manage team and motivate and develop the team members.
Be able to handle and priority important/urgent situations, can work under pressure.
Languages requirement: fluent in English - both oral and written and professional in Chinese language—can speak, read and write in Chinese swiftly.
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